Quote of the Day

A protest outside Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., last month. Google and other Silicon Valley companies said that a ban on visitors from seven largely Muslim countries could hurt the economy. Jason Henry for The New York Times

“In 2016, we saw how technology could be used to polarize ourselves to extreme levels. The most important thing we could do is figure out how to use technology to depolarize the nation.”

~SAM ALTMAN, who runs the start-up incubator Y Combinator, on how Silicon Valley has been galvanized into greater political participation in recent weeks.